The problem: "Add to Cart" hyperlink opens a new browser tab for each click rather than consolidating into a single one.
The ideal solution: When the "Add to Cart" hyperlinks are clicked, they will populate the checkout screen in a single tab only.
I use a published google sheet to list some items for sale in a list. Each item has an adjacent hyperlink labeled "Add to Cart" that has its own unique Paypal URL to pass inputs (I have pasted example below). This works fine and all however if the user clicks another Add to Cart then it opens up yet another tab. This doesnt seem like a big deal but it is a bad user experience confuses them all the time and leads to checkout issues. With HTML this is not a problem but I can't use HTML.
So my question is, is it possible to use a google script to open all the Add to Carts URLs in a single tab? Or any way to auto-close the first tab in favor of the next one? Or any way to even open in SAME tab such as mimick target="_self" but in URL format? Or any other way to do this?
(such as: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_cart&business=bob123%40gmail%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=TOYTRACTOR&item_number=123456789&amount=999%2e00¤cy_code=USD&button_subtype=products&no_note=0&cn=Add%20special%20instructions%20to%20the%20seller%3a&no_shipping=2&shipping=10%2e00&add=1&bn=PP%2dShopCartBF%3abtn_cart_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted)
Unfortunately, that's the experience with PayPal Standard cart buttons. I would recommend you switch to building your own cart experience, and then you can use the cart upload method to build a PayPal Standard request.
Alternatively, you could move to the Express Checkout APIs, which gives you more features and functionality.
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I have a 3 step report which loads by clicking a link with the remote: :true option, so it reloads a part of the page instead of refreshing the whole page. I also provide the user with breadcrumbs, so he/she can easily navigate between the steps. However, most users use the browser back button, which of course reloads the whole page. What is the "Rails way" of dealing with this? If the browser back button is clicked the user should see the previous step in the report.
If you need to control the history the user sees, but aren't doing full page reloads on form submit, you should be manipulating the history state via Javascript's history.pushState and friends.
Assuming the responds to the submitted form is some sort of evaluated Javascript, simply include the history state manipulations there.
There are a bunch of question on this but no answers on how to do it without javascript.
If you have one form that has 2 select boxes. The second select box has different options based on what you choose for the first select box. Here is a js example. Not all users have js enabled so for these users this option would be unavailable.
Can this be achieved solely using CSS3, HTML5 and Ruby? I would show what I've got so far in trying this but I got nothing.
What you are asking is how to manipulate the DOM after it has loaded without a client-side scripting language. This is not possible as far as I am aware; unfortunately that is not what you want to hear.
The proper solution in this case would be to have the user submit the page and generate the second selection box at that time. You will have to rely entirely on server-side logic to handle the problem. So basically something like:
Serve a page with just a single selection box
When the page is posted generate a similar page where the first selection is locked and display a second selection box with the possible options.
Continue the iteration until you have all of the required selections filled out by the user.
Serve the result that the user requested.
I was wondering which way would be the best for my following problem. and maybe sample on how to do it also
I have the following models: customer, music, books.
What I would like to do is when a customer wants to go into the edit page then automatically customer general information such as name, password show up! But on an other tab by pressing music which his another model then music information comes up in the same. Sorta like facebook and twitter edit page do it.
Now each of the form are rendered by the following code line at the moment
<%= render 'general'%>
but how do i include them in the link and should i just use javascript and toggle them or use ajax ??
Thanks
Well, this has little to do with Ajax, since all information you need aparently would already been loaded by you main customer object.
What i understand you want is something like the tabs javascript plugin of twitter bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#tabs
You put the different content (music/books/etc) in different divs and when the tab is clicked, the content changes and the user gets a better experience.
Take a look at the link, it is super easy to set up this plugin on your project.
I am working on a Grails project, its an accounting project. We have multiple clients and they can have multiple types of accounts. I have to create the 'create' page for client, there should be a way to add multiple types of account to the client.
So I was thinking of making a drop-down list with account types and few text boxes to enter account name and other info about account. Also, as a client can have multiple accounts, so I want to create a 'add' button, when clicked it would display a new row to add a new client. I have done this kind of UI before using javascript but in this case, as there is a drop-down list and other components, I think it would be very hard and may not work.
I was thinking of creating a partial view which would render each time user clicked the 'add' button with additional row, problem with this would be during validation errors, edit page and i would also have to pass all values each time user clicks 'add' button.
Is there any other for doing this?
For the template approach you must use ajax if you don't want to carry on the params that the user has already set.
It is possible to make new drop-down lists appear (or any group of elements inside a <div>) when a user clicks a button, since Grails already comes with jQuery you might want to take a look at the .clone() method.
The problem with the two listed approeaches is that it will be possible to have duplicates.
Now, another option is to use checkboxes, so you can check just the type of account you want.
But to be honest it does seems a bit odd or even inapropiate to let the user choose the type of account he wants with such freedom.
I want to modify the django admin for a particular model to provide the following behaviour.
A user make a search on the change_list page. The the user click a specific entry and he lands on the change_form for that entry. Nothing different to the usual.
Now, what I want is a mean to navigate the former search results. Basically next and previous buttons on the edit page.
What would be the best approach to implement this feature without modifying the admin site too much?
I will need to memorize the search in the user session, then when an entry is clicked I will need to known which place it has within the results to place my "cursor" accordingly. But I'm a bit in the cloud as the implementation side.
One way is to just put the next and previous button in the template for that particular model.
This can be implemented using simple javascript.
I ended writing a fully custom admin for that.